Morning Live: Dr Ranj Singh explains what 'brain fog' is
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Dr Ranj Singh, who regularly appears on This Morning, shared his dismay over the joke Pimlico Plumbers’ boss Charlie Mullins made on stage at the British Curry Awards. The television doctor deplored Charlie’s comments about India’s footballing ability in a series of tweets following the awards ceremony which took place on Monday.
TalkTV shared a clip of Charlie’s gag on its Twitter account on Wednesday where he can be seen on stage telling the joke.
Charlie said: “How come India doesn’t have a team at the World Cup? Because every time they get a corner they want to open up a shop.”
Dr Ranj retweeted the clip and penned a variety of tweets expressing his disappointment about it.
‘Why has India never won the World Cup? Because every time they get a corner, they build a shop on it.’ I’m sorry but how is this OK?”
In response to a comment under his tweet, he said: “I agree we have many battles to fight but perpetuating racist and outdated stereotypes shouldn’t be one of them – especially at events around us.
“It is not up to us to apologise, make allowances for, or educate the people that do this. But it is up to us to call it out.”
The 43-year-old also slammed the decision to employ comedian Hugh Dennis as the main host of the awards.
He further criticised the “all-white judging panel” and “90 percent white performers” in a statement.
Dr Ranj wrote: “I was honoured and privileged to be invited as a guest for the British Curry Awards tonight. Firstly, thank you to this brilliant organisation for doing their best to celebrate our Asian community.
“However, when the host is white, the judging panel is entirely white, and the performers onstage are over 90 percent white, are we really representing our community fairly?
“And to top it off, we have a racist joke on stage, and are auctioning off a piece by Winston Churchill whose relationship with India (and Bengali people specifically) is problematic?
“We are better than this. We are a magnificent people. We have done so much and still have so much to offer. Let’s do better together.”
Andrea James added: “This is very much not OK. I’m sorry you’re upset. Earlier this year I was subjected to racist jokes about Irish people and potatoes and I was shocked by just how hurtful and upsetting it was. So belittling and a generally horrible feeling. Sending you love.”
Iain Watret remarked: “A disrespectful joke at the best of times, but in that setting, it’s being deliberately insulting too.
“I trust the person who came out with that did not exactly get a warm round of applause after it, or much by way of laughter at their attempt at being funny.”
CJ said: “What? Really? How did they get away with it? Come on, we’re not in the ’70s, sorry to read this Ranj.”
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